Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-02

msnss; enabling them 10 eel their auh.
game and labar, and il return buV ,eoIs
EuKs, trinkets. eta. with an ave =,
these advantages, Seattle temporarilV
removed hts plaee of DWELLING % OiVm-
piA, and there be was foand b Or. u.
:. maynard IN 1851. MAYNARD wnntsd
30 eee farther down tie Sound. and -
leoate &c Aaaae paint fRworahle fer
trading WITH the Indians and fer the
eauuinR OF q town. seattle told hiue
ne knew place % suit him, and Al ar
IaoRement vas quickly made bv vhlch
~. Maynard Vas taken down aha
sound oy Seattle and his indians In
cAnoa.
Az that time the Duwamish srihe
dweie all arouad the place, on Salmon
bay % the nofth and On Dawamish and
biaek Rivers b the south, baa nnne
nved 90 TIE ste Of the present toWn.
FROM time 10 time Il had been the tem-
porary abiding piaee Of rowing oompa-
aaes q Indians. and one deserted hoeas
vas foand here bv she Doctor. TIE
Denny brothers. Bell. Ferry, YealaF an6
others Of that early DAY. The Seauan-
lshes and Dawamiahes ware aIllad
tribes, %, perhapa, one divided triha.
the Dnuamishes livtnR on she eastern
shore Of tbs Ssund and ths Ssouam-
isne9 81 eAe weslera. Whila Seatala
We the Immediate ohiaf OF tie S.
quAmishes, he bad great inlaenca win
the Da9amishes. and. ia fact. latar he-
oane their chief also BY appoinlmenk
OF G0vernor stevens. BV loeakino thu
whites hefs be evidently oanaISsFe1
thal be vas favaEirR hotn hranohea a.
the tstee, this besnR Z esntral ara eoa-
venaen4 psint fer all ths thoarand
Andans thua associated. Foz several
montaa TIE place went by its Indian
name . name almost unpro--
nounasable and quite impossible 10
write. After seFuaelinq VITA ehia aar-
sAfoea name until their pAtioaoe vas
Exhausted, the whits men concluded Is
nake a change. They delibaFated
anona themselves, and anally settled
apon Seattle as . nams In every wAy
sorthy the town they were founding.
Tue Cnief waa much pleased with tha
honor thus paid him, and showed his
iatitade and good feeling il Rumber-
aaa ways thereafter. His friendship Il
ne tevn and les handful Of cltissna
tood them IN GOOD stead durlne the
ndian war or 1855 Sc, and was und0abt-
'dly TIE cause OF the saving og the life
4 nany . white person. In fact, had
hs indiana over whom Stattle txer-
lsed Jurisdiction, joined The houtiIss
iaFing THAI terrible time, instead os
opposing then, a. they we're led 20 40
y their Chief, the destruction OF tte
own itself might have been compaasad,
= vas every other settlement OF whites
within forty miles. The pioneers Al.
sayS hava good word for seattle, ana
sil ALLOW nothing said aRainsl his
memory 10 90 unrebnked.
Seattle was superior Indian. He
sas tall, vel built and powerful. His
'oioe was clear and musical. He had
.osolute control over bis tribe. The
snite men OF his acquainaanoe greatly
admired him. Seattle was born about
ne beginning ef the century. AZ near
, as can Be learned AZ this late day, be
'ariy assumed prominence In biz tribe,
Using thereiA until be was iss acknOw-
sdged head he kept his residence al
he Old Man Hoaae until bic death. n
S66, where bis grave is vel ehoWn gilh
1ride aud reverence by the Indians atill
living at that point Ia his social rela-
ions seattle Wag exemDiary. He had
lut one wife, whe bore him three ahil-
iren-0eorge Seattle, Jim Seattle and
Angeline. The wife and 0soree died
lver twenty years ago, aud Jim Ave
ears AGO. Angeline still lives, o,supy-
ng little h0uss on the " tier front Of
be place named after her father. a
,lace that. notwithstanding many hard
lnooks aud bitter opposition, has be-
'ome the lsading city % the Territory,
nd second 70 only one In the PaoiAe
Portland.
Tue Old Man House referred 70 In
he foregoing Was q wonderful work for
tmpls, igmoFant people like theae In
iians. u vas built before the whits
nen made their homes ia this country,
Z was an Immense structure, Intended
or grand occasions and great assem-
'lages. Logs TIVE feet IN diameter Wsrs
lsed 10 building les wallis, the eating
md hauling Of which under the oitoum-
tanoes are = marvel TO this day. The
tFinesrs pleoed twenty feet above she
round we're huge aud heavy timbcrs,
be handling Of which without hosting
pparstus wonlt be deemed impossible
y the American or European mechanio
{ today. The roof was made Of long
hakes, or cedar logs split In slabs, put
a slanting position 20 shed the rain.
WAS a famous Structure, In which
Iot enly tbs StQuamishes. but all the
ther Puget Sound Indians felt intense
interest. Naturally enough she village
the Old Man Houso took
y name from that building, but Of iats
ears with tfs gradual disuse and de-
iFuctien the Old Man House has been
ut little heard of, and. like Chiaf Seat.
e, Who Rioried In 10 and assisted 10 It's
snslraciion, will soon Be remembered
y Bone bat the oldest Inhabitants.